How do I make shaded box for a quote?

And, it’s not as hard to do as you might think. You will, however, have to get your hands dirty in your HTML. Wait! Don’t leave! You can do this! Deep breaths, people. Stay with me.

To make a blockquote without a box, you simply type your text, then highlight it, then click on the Quote Mark button. If you look at your Edit HTML tab, you’ll see the HTML for a blockquote is <blockquote>This is some quoted text.</blockquote>

To spice up your quote you may want to add a shaded box so it stands out on your page more. To do that, copy and paste this code into your Edit HTML tab (not your Compose tab).

You can change any of the bolded elements to your preference. The border can be 10px instead of 2px if that’s your thing. It can be dashed, dotted, or invisible instead of solid; just change the word "solid" to "dashed" (without the quotes) or whichever type of border you want.

The #666 and #ccc are HTML elements that tell your browser what color to use. They are called Hexadecimal values. Here is a chart that will help you choose which value you’d like to use for your background and border colors.

Finally, change the italicized part that says This is some quoted text to the actual text you’d like to use. Click over to the Compose Post tab and make sure you like what you see. If you do, click Save. If not, keep making changes until you’re happy and then click Save.

Not only is Chilihead “smert” … but she is one “#C0000-hot” internet-savy mamacita! (that’s “red-hot” in plain-ol’-english)

You can also go here: http://www.colorschemer.com/online/ and get a great, GREAT tool for color schemes, and you can click on the color blocks for all kinds of shades, variations, etc. Very cool stuff!

Hi, thanks for all this has been very helpful. I have a question though, I want to create these shaded boxes and add other things into them like products or ads so I can uses them in my sidebars. Can anyone help me with that, and how do you change the font colour in the shaded box with this one? Thanks.